Fables de La Fontaine avec un nouveau commentaire, Tome Premier

Title

en_US Fables de La Fontaine avec un nouveau commentaire, Tome Premier

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Language note: French

en_US First edition

en_US Ch. Nodier

Creator

en_US No Author See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Bergeret, Pierre-Nolasque

Date

2016-01-22T21:18:27Z

en_US 2015-02

en_US 1818

Date Available

2016-01-22T21:18:27Z

Date Issued

en_US 1818

Abstract

en_US Here is a lucky find that I stumbled upon on eBay. The collection already includes two copies of the 1828 printing by Emler Frères, one of which confuses the order of illustrations and one of which adds an extra illustration for V 6, The Old Woman and Her Two Servants (238). This copy follows Bodemann's account and lacks both of those irregularities. The first of two special features of these volumes is that they are the first edition of Nodier's commentary, which consists in Remaques after each fable. The second lies in the twelve aqua-fortis gravures designed by Pierre-Nolasque Bergeret. Bodemann states, incorrectly for this copy, that the images are always at the beginning of their books. Book and fable number are above each picture, with the date (1818) and fable title beneath. As Bassy and Bodemann note, each illustration offers a medallion or a quadrangle resting on something in a scene, with one to four fable scenes playing around the medallion or quadrangle. A list of them appears on Bassy 230 and 265. They include 1) a frontispiece showing a bust of La Fontaine with a halo over a tombstone on which there is an image of a man (La Fontaine?) apparently standing before a shut door. Others show 2) L'Enfant et le Maitre d'Ecole inside a picture of FC and GA (37), 3) MSA within TT and The Cat Judges Rat and Weasel (88), 4) The Miser Who Lost His Treasure within The Monkey Throwing Away His Master's Coins (171), 5) The Ass Carrying Relics inside The Hermit Rat (205), and 6) The Driver Bogged Down inside WL (249). An analysis of the juxtaposition of fables within these images would be a delight! Think of the contrast between the distraught miser weeping over his lost treasure and the monkey throwing money away! Good condition.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier 230

en_US 10488 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/75102

Publisher

en_US Alexis Eymery, Imprimerie Didot l'A?né

en_US Paris

Subject

en_US Jean de La Fontaine See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole